Patti Hansen's Making Handbags

Five years ago, Alexandra and Theordora Richards were rummaging through their mom's closet — that'd be the equally gorgeous Patti Hansen, wife of Rolling Stone Keith Richards — when they found a handful of slouchy leather bags.

These were the same bags Patti used to wear to Studio 54: "There was a guy in the 70s who was working with a lot of leathers at
the time
and we were all buying these particular ones," Patti said. Her daughters brought them back to life and soon all three were wearing them on the red carpet, with jeans, while traveling — and sooner or later someone noticed.

That someone's Molly Madden, the Hollywood producer who introduced Patti to Debi Koppel, who'd already been making bags for fifteen years. And thus, HungOnU was born.

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"Now I'm wearing one that's a little brighter and a little blacker," Patti said of the new collection. The same classic shape's been recreated in just two sizes, but many fabrics. "The
girls are using the new ones...they just love the glitter and nylon versions. We put a mesh one up on the site last night, too, and it's really great," Patti said.

The bags are available exclusively online and a portion of the profits go toward cancer research.